In this episode, I explore Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 classic, "Late Spring." Setsuko Hara stars as 27-year-old Noriko who feels a strong bond with her widower father and prefers to live with him instead of getting married. Worried that he will doom his daughter to an unfulfilling life, Noriko's father claims that he intends to re-marry and insists that Noriko have a life of her own with a husband. I talk about Ozu's life, why his directing style is unique, and why this film moves me so deeply. I focus on the relationship between Noriko and her father, and I question why we prioritize romantic love and often do not acknowledge the power of other kinds of love, like that for our parents or our friends.
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Listen to episodes mentioned:
Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' (2016)
Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy
Abbas Kiarostami's 'Where Is My Friend's House' (1987) and Mohammad-Ali Talebi's 'Willow and Wind' (2000)
Abbas Kiarostami's 'Taste of Cherry' (1997)
Claude Chabrol's 'La Cérémonie' (1995)
Christian Petzold's 'Phoenix' (2014)
Alan J. Pakula's 'Sophie's Choice' (1982)
Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy
Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' (1955)
Jean-Jacques Beineix's 'Locked-In Syndrome' (1997) and Julian Schnabel's 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007)
David Lean's 'Summertime' (1955)
Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'The Double Life of Veronique' (1991)
Satyajit Ray's 'The Big City' (1963)
João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa's 'Arábia' (2017)
Barry Jenkins's 'Moonlight' (2016)
Jennie Livingston's 'Paris is Burning' (1990)
Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's 'Big Night' (1996)
How I Discovered Cinema and Why It's So Important to Me
Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'Dekalog'
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